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🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Welcome to my regular Monday review of the weekend in Spanish football.
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This week, I focus on two teams who will play in the UK this week. Athletic Club got a 0-0 that helps their season-long aims and welcomed back their top gun - but their best player is way off the pace. The champions, meanwhile, had a shocker. But in the Champions League? It’s usually a different Madrid.
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0:00.0 | Morning all of you, what is the US. |
0:03.0 | This is what it's come to. |
0:05.0 | Pretty low rent version of James Richardson |
0:08.0 | Saturday mornings in the 1990s. |
0:11.0 | Let's get started on what's been a brilliant weekend in La Liga |
0:16.0 | and I've been ordered that this must focus on the two rivals |
0:19.0 | that the British teams are going to play in Europe this week. |
0:22.7 | Let's begin with Athletic Club. |
0:25.6 | The Adrundal nil at Villarreal, which is a great result for them. |
0:29.1 | They're six points ahead of the Yellow Submarine in the race for what is nominally the final Champions League place in La Liga. |
0:36.5 | But it's now two games with no goals scored. |
0:39.8 | Worst of all, their number one most dynamic, most threatening footballer Nika Williams is wildly out of form. |
0:47.9 | Substituted to early this week. He looks unsure of what to do with the ball. How weird is that? |
0:56.6 | There were injuries, Yuri and Paredes added to Yerai, who was already out. I have a feeling that I brought some Thursday. |
1:04.4 | Yari and Paredes will either play or be available. It still means that Los Liones are fourth in the best league in the world and they've only |
1:13.8 | suffered one defeat in 21 matches. |
1:17.4 | If there was really good news for Valverdi's team, it's the fact that Sunset is back. |
1:24.2 | The big powerful number 10, he plays in that line of three behind the nominal |
1:30.7 | centre forward, is the leading Spanish scorer in the Liga, and therefore by definition |
1:36.7 | he's athletics top scorer, 15 this season. He's been out for 43 days on the bench last week, |
1:44.1 | didn't get a sniff. Started |
1:46.3 | on the bench at Villarreal on Sunday night, came on and although there was a hint of rustiness, |
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